Word: nicest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Young Bramah Pooter Bantam (his mother was a Partlett, they intermarried with the Woodcocks, and are really among our very nicest people) has gone to join his mamma at Cannes, where that estimable lady is trying the effects of the soft Mediterranean climate upon her too excitable American nerves. But let not the candid reader suppose that Bramah's entire summer will be passed in soothing the dear patient's fevered brow. No, he will push a leetle farther along the Riviera. The truth is, that a little pecuniary transaction took place on Pooter's departure from home, between himself...
...them attempt to imitate us in dress and manners. Why is it, when most of the people in the States accuse us of being conservative snobs, that they come over here and copy these very snobs in loud clothes and detestable habits? Naturally enough, they don't take our nicest people for models; just as we who may not know any first class Parisians, form our opinions of the French nation from what we see of "cabbies" and shop-girls. You see I am trying not to be prejudiced either against you Yankees or for us. I send by this...
...bell and a quick step in the hall that I knew in a minute was Will's. On the way down town he told me that everything was just perfect. They had sold seven hundred tickets the first two days and the rest within a week, and just the nicest people in the city were going. Will was in full dress, and he looked real handsome I tell you. We were a little early, so we had time to look around some and see who were there and to watch the fresh arrivals. As all the tickets had been sold...
...inquiring and rather conceited Freshman asked me the other day, "What are the best hours to take cars to and from Boston? I should like to know when I should meet the nicest fellows, as I go on the tramway - I mean, horse-car - been on the Continent so much - a good deal." As the entire faculties of '82 seem to be concentrated in an effort to meet only "nice fellows," I thought the matter would interest them all; so I told my young friend that he might look for an answer in the next Crimson...
...truth is that they do not understand the real value in daily life of what may be called artistic surroundings. It is by no means necessary to have every stick of furniture carved on the very nicest plan that the system of Eastlake has produced; nor to arrange every corner of a room with a studied attention to the picturesque, which would make it look like a magnified reproduction of a modern genre picture. But it is, if not absolutely necessary, at least highly desirable to hang upon your walls pictures that will suggest ideas; pictures at which...